"Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!"

“Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.”

“The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.”

Source : Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

“Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.”

“I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.”

“The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.”